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Nov. 8, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
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Lessons for 2024 - November 8th, Hour 3
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So USA Today, yesterday, comes out with a poll.
Biden's approval again in the 30s, in this case, 38%.
Now, Kamala Harris is even lower.
She comes in at 28%.
I mean, you really can't have numbers this bad unless you're really screwing up.
Now, as I've been pointing out so often, there's not a single policy of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that I can point to where they have been successful.
And they've just now doubled down on their new Green Deal socialism.
You know, Joe Biden, I don't know what source, as we were discussing earlier, the fact that Peter Doocy asks him about his own Department of Justice policy to pay out $450,000 to illegal immigrants if, in fact, there was family separation in the course of them breaking our laws, not respecting our borders and sovereignty, or the fact that he said it's garbage.
That's not going to happen.
And now he's vigorously defending it because I guess somebody told him that's what the bill is.
Anyway, 64% of registered voters want to dump Biden, period.
And you have a flood of House Democrats considering retirement after last week's election debacle.
Here to take a look at where we are at this snapshot of where the Biden presidency is one year out of the midterms.
We have John McLaughlin, co-founder, McLaughlin Associates.
Matt Towery is a pollster Insider Advantage.
Robert Cahaley is with the Trafalgar Group, three of the best pollsters by far in the country.
Welcome all of you back to the program.
Thank you.
Look, it's a year out, but as I've been saying, Matt Tower, we'll start with you.
There's not a single thing I can point to, and I'm trying to be objective here.
There's not a single thing, policy that I can point to that Biden has supported that has benefited anybody.
No, I mean, it's been a complete debacle.
And what's interesting, Sean, is that, you know, for years, the polling numbers you would see for approval ratings, other than maybe Gallup, I felt like the collection, data collection system and the way they weighted have always endured to the benefit of the Democrat.
So who knows how low this really is?
What I know is you can't get much lower as a Democrat with the pollsters we have out there.
He just is, and as you said, he's doubling down on things.
It doesn't make sense that you would double down on bad policies when you're dropping like a rock.
But he's doing that.
You know, Robert, if you look at, for example, the disaster that is Afghanistan, most Americans now are becoming more and more aware that even though he inherited three vaccines and monoclonal antibodies as a therapeutic for COVID, we have more people in America that died this year than died in 2020.
And that's pretty much the entire campaign he ran on from his basement bunker in 2020.
Then you look at, for example, Jennifer Granholm laughing hysterically because, oh, what are you going to do to solve the price of gasoline and energy, the lifeblood of our economy?
She blames the cartels and blames OPEC.
They've been begging OPEC.
OPEC keeps rejecting them.
And all Joe really needs to do is make a phone call to Texas, Alaska, North Dakota, and Oklahoma.
And we can go right back to the Trump policies that were working.
Then you can add inflation and the impact that energy prices are having on every single thing that we buy.
It's, you know, 30 bucks more to fill up your car.
It's, you know, $1,000 more dollars to heat your home in the wintertime.
And then you look at the disaster at the border, including paying illegal immigrants $450,000, which he's now passionately defending.
Robert, you know, your first question was: Did you ask who was happy?
Well, I can tell you who's happy.
There's a few environmentalists that are happy, and there are a few people out there who don't really want to work and like getting paid to stay home that are happy.
But none of these things represent the vast swath of Americans and how they feel about any of these issues.
Your take, John McLaughlin.
By the way, I think you're going to see real panic on the Democrat side because they got to send a message on Tuesday that, I mean, Matt and Robert are great pollsters.
Their polls are the most accurate that I've seen.
But let me tell you, those of us who engage in the campaign politics, we looked at the disapproval of Biden and said every vote we can get exists there.
And there wasn't just wins in Virginia where Biden had a 56 disapproval.
In Tu Blue, New York, the New York State Conservative Party had a huge win across the state where their chairman, Jerry Kassar and Alan Rutz on their executive committee, they went after Proposition 1, which would count illegals in redistricting, prop 3, which would be same-day registration in a state where there's no voter ID.
And the fourth thing they went after was no excuse absentees that would have ballot harvesting.
We won those three props with a no vote 60-40 in New York State.
And then in Nassau County, that you're very familiar with, the voters gave us a Republican DA because the Democrat had helped write cashless bail.
And they gave us a county executive in Bruce Blakeman because seven out of 10 voters thought reassessment had raised their taxes.
So you're seeing the path to Republican wins for 2022 exists in Biden's disapproval rating.
And every Republican strategist knows it, and every Democrat strategist knows it.
And you're going to see the Democrats got a problem because if they keep making them do crazy things, Republicans will keep winning elections.
Now, the three of you have this in common.
All three of you predicted 2016, and all three of you were dead on accurate about 2020.
And all three of you were right about the Georgia Senate runoffs.
And all three of you were right about the Virginia governor's race.
And you got awfully close, Robert Cahaley, in particular.
Matt, I don't think you polled New Jersey in terms of you saw this late break towards the Republican in that race against Governor Murphy, who nearly lost.
So I noticed that on Real Clear Politics, both Robert and Matt put together an analysis of the Republican Party and what it means post-Virginia, post-New Jersey.
Matt, I'll throw it to you first.
Well, one thing it means, and Robert and I both saw this, and I know that John's seeing it as well.
There's this silly notion being floated by these establishment Republicans that, oh, you don't need Donald Trump anymore to win a race.
You run on the issues and don't involve Trump because, after all, he's just a necessary evil when you need him.
That is idiotic.
And Robert and I wrote about that today to refute it because we keep hearing this from these so-called experts.
Trump is needed.
He's the reason that they turned out in the first place.
And those issues that they say are so important, they're all the issues that Donald Trump addressed that no one in the Republican Party would until he was elected.
So we find that to be the most amazing thing.
In Virginia, yes, Youngkin did not have Trump come in and campaign for him, but Trump was very much a part of that race.
As a matter of fact, there were endless ads.
You showed them on your TV show where they kept saying, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, over and over and over again.
But yet it seems like that didn't hurt Youngin a bit.
He won by two points, the two points that we had polled as the winning margin.
So that's what I think.
I'm in that group, too.
I said it would be a two-point race.
We all turned out to be right.
And I just follow you guys, and then my odds go up dramatically.
Robert, why don't you add to that, and then we'll get John's take on it.
Well, the main thing that we notice is, you know, you watch the Democrat Party eat itself and fall in on itself.
And this is something we cannot fall victim to, whether we like it or not.
And there are a lot of Republicans who don't.
But the modern Republican Party is not the George H.W. Bush Party.
It's the George H.W. Bush Party plus a lot of the Ross Perot voters.
And those blue-the-collar regular folks are a key part to this coalition.
And, you know, Trump kind of brought a party where the guy who plays golf three times a week and the lady who works at a restaurant as a waitress can vote for the same candidate.
And, you know, we have to have this coalition to win.
And so running people off and kind of demonize people and suggesting that we don't need our full coalition and alienating the president's supporters and not a good way to win elections.
We learned that in the 2020, 2021 runoff in Georgia.
And we went into that in great depth in the column and how they blew the campaign on that one.
But I think it's a very important message.
This party's got to stay united.
And that means all aspects.
John, what's your take on it?
Well, the ones who are spinning that they should walk away from Trump are the same ones who blew the 2012 race for Romney.
And I got to deal with these people in campaigns.
And in Virginia, when you look at the facts, 46% of all voters said that they had voted for Trump in 2020.
Guess what?
The Biden voters were 46% in that turnout.
So the Trump voters came out and the numbers on the rural vote where the Trump voters live was higher.
So Trump, like you said, all the attacks on Trump backfired and the base came out.
And the Trump voters were there.
And if the Republicans want to guarantee losing future elections, just walk away from Donald Trump because Trump's base delivered.
They reacted when they got attacked.
And they're ready to win more elections in 2022.
And I can hardly wait for the primary so we can get the rhinos out of the party.
All right, quick break more with our pollsters.
Matt Towery and Robert Cahaly and John McLaughlin on the other side.
We continue now with our pollsters, and we'll get to your calls, 800-941-Sean.
But we continue with Robert Cahaley, Matt Towery, and John McLaughlin.
I mean, the agenda is set in my view, and that's the Trump agenda.
And that is, okay, we believe in liberty, freedom, capitalism, our Constitution.
Less bureaucracy, Donald Trump, check.
Lower taxes, check.
We want safe and secure borders, check.
Energy independence, he achieved that for the first time in 75 years, check.
Constitutionalists on the bench, check.
Free and fair trade, check.
Law and order, check.
Choice in school, they didn't get it done, but they definitely are pushing for it.
They're the party of choice in school.
And of course, abroad, it's peace through strength.
And I don't see any fear of Joe Biden with any of our enemies.
So the agenda is the agenda.
What do all three of you say to, yeah, it's the Trump agenda, but maybe if Donald Trump wouldn't be as competitive as he is, Matt?
Well, you know my opinion.
I think that's that's uh misguided uh for them to say that.
I mean, Trump is what he is.
He delivers his message well.
Um, would we all change maybe little bits and pieces of the way he does it?
Yes, but you're not going to change Donald Trump.
And in the end, you get a messenger who they follow, people listen to.
I'll tell you, Sean, very quickly, the fact that the Republicans in Ohio are trying, the Republicans are trying to write Jim Jordan out of his seat tells you that we still have a lot of people out there who just don't get it.
And the Republicans need to all wise up because there's a great chance to take it.
I think there's this effort among establishment people to purge Trump from the party.
Now, a lot of the compativeness, remember, I've never seen any one president in my lifetime by a long shot, under fire, lied about for three solid years, this whole hoax, Russia collusion, BS narrative.
That took three years of his presidency away.
Absolutely.
No doubt about it.
It was a complete waste of time.
Total and complete waste of time.
Robert, what's your take on all this?
That's exactly right.
And what Trump represents is he represents a kind of a return to the kitchen table politics.
There are those who want to abandon that.
McLaughlin was talking about the Romney race.
I mean, literally, Romney was the guy who shipped jobs overseas, and he was the Republican nominee, for God's sake.
I mean, this is exactly how far this party has come.
And so we now have a party that is standing up for life, standing up for the Second Amendment, standing up for jobs in America.
And there are a lot of Republicans who would just go back to a party that stood up for none of those and get rid of these issues that make them uncomfortable because they're willing to be just a little less liberal than the Democrat Party.
And that's not where the public is.
Well, I think the desire to purge by the establishment, it's no longer the establishment's party, John McLaughlin.
They're not going to win.
And after watching Joe Biden fail so spectacularly in such a short period of time, I'll take mean tweets and energy independence and secure borders and lower taxes and a better economy and the world respecting us, which they obviously don't respect Joe Biden, and especially hostile regimes.
Absolutely, because this is the party, the heartland of America, and the party of working Americans.
And basically what you're looking at is the liberals, they're not liberals.
I mean, they're big government socialists.
I mean, it's amazing how, I mean, in our work for Newt Gingrich, they support American capitalism, 76% over 24% supporting big government socialism.
And when you look at this, you're saying working Americans want to work.
They don't believe in what Biden and the Democrats are selling us.
And we should keep that base together because the country club will lose the election because the Trump base is rock solid, on fire.
He would win a primary 81 to 15 supporter opposed if he got into it.
And in the meantime, when you look at what the Democrats are doing or the Republicans, the country club Republicans, they'd rather control their country club.
It's like.
All right.
Last exit question.
Predictions.
John McLaughlin.
Will Donald Trump run in 2024?
They keep attacking him.
You betcha.
I hope they attack.
Robert Cahaley, will he run?
Just like John said, it kind of reminds me of Obama attacking him in that dinner.
Yeah, they keep making him on, and he's going to slap back hard.
Matt Towery, will he run?
And if yes, would he win?
Yes, because he's the only one who can pull that base out at those massive numbers he did last time.
It'll be fascinating.
And we could hopefully get the country back on the right track, which is the most important.
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Gail is in the great state of Indiana.
Hey, Gail, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
It's great to talk to you.
I just want to say, mean treats save lives.
Mean tweets save lives.
Oh, well, I'll take mean tweets and a competent president that knows how to get things done any day.
Yes, I would.
Hey, I just wanted to call you.
I'm a nurse from Indiana, and I have been a nurse for over three decades.
And I had COVID in 20, May of 20, and I also lost my job that very day that I got COVID.
So I just did, you get, why did you get fired?
Did you get fired?
No, I didn't get fired.
I was a nurse consultant.
And so I stayed on with the consulting group that I was, or with the organization that I was working with to help them get their system up.
I was doing informatics consulting until they got their COVID documentation up and running for the hospital and the clinics.
And then, of course, you know, when you're closing service lines, you're not going to keep a high-paid consultant.
So I was let go because of that.
Well, that's like a double whammy.
Oh, you got COVID.
And by the way, here's your pink slip.
Have a good couple of weeks.
It was a double whammy, yes.
So you had mentioned last, I think it was early last week or midweek, that nurses in other service industries get pensions.
We in this great state of Indiana, we are non-unionized, so we do not get pensions.
So our 35 years that we work at the bedside and break our backs.
Do you get any 401k match?
Do you get any type of some, you know, varies depending on the organization that you work for and has changed over the course of the years that I've worked as a nurse in the different organizations that I've worked for in the state.
Well, all my sisters at one point in their life have been nurses and they've all moved on to other things for varying reasons and other careers.
But look, I guess it's a state-by-state thing.
It's a hospital by hospital thing.
And I know that, look, some places offer better benefits than others.
That's what it comes down to.
And I'm just worried about people.
What's that?
What I see is they're unionized, the unionized groups like New York, nurses are unionized, California.
Just because I've been a consultant across the United States, as well as the, you know, internationally, Michigan, California, Michigan.
I'm not against unions.
I'm against unions that will take rank and file dollars and spend them on one political party over another.
I'm against unions.
I think you should have a choice whether you want to join the union or not.
And I know unions don't like that.
I do believe that if if some hospitals don't want unions, they should have.
I believe in right to work states, for example, and which Democrats want to give back to the unions because the unions donate so much money to their political campaigns.
They've got an unholy alliance with them.
But regardless, if people are willing to give up their salary, whatever benefits they do have, and maybe a 401k match, whatever it happens to be, maybe a pension, the idea that the very people that worked in the worst moments of COVID in COVID petri dishes and dove on COVID grenades, as I say, every day, many of them got COVID as a result, like you.
And now we're going to just say thanks, but no thanks.
You either do what we say, there'll be no accommodation whatsoever.
Number one, it seems unscientific to me.
And number two, it seems like a slap in the face.
It is very unscientific.
In fact, I had my physical last week, and I point-blank asked the provider, my provider I've known since he was an intern.
We worked together.
I was a new nurse, and he was a resident at the VA.
And I point-blank asked him, and he could not meet me in I about, I said, look, I have immunity.
I've been donating convalescent plasma since I got it.
I still have high immunity.
Why do I have to take a vaccination?
I don't take chickenpox.
You wouldn't give me a chickenpox vaccination if you draw a titer on me and I have antibodies.
So what's the difference?
I don't understand.
And he gave me some weak statistic of sudden cardiac death that they have in, you know, in athletes that they drop dead on the field or whatever.
It's like one in 40,000, 1 to 80,000.
And that's for the statistics for the NIH.
And he equated that with COVID.
And I said, that's like apples and oranges.
You can't even compare the two of those as far as the testing.
So like if you tested all your athletes and gave them ECR and check them out.
I want to see when this study at Israel gets peer-reviewed.
We've referred to it often because the early indications were, and this is a very big study, nearly 800,000 people.
And what the original results are showing is, especially as it relates to the Delta variant in particular, is that people that had natural immunity were 27 times less vulnerable than people that just had the vaccine.
Now, it's got to be peer-reviewed.
There's got to be some follow-up.
But the early data is, you know, it's very strong.
And we kept getting lectured about following the science.
I'm a believer in science and I believe in the science of vaccination even.
But I'm also a believer in natural immunity, T-cell immunity.
We've had enough doctors on.
And at the end of the day, too, I believe in freedom, medical privacy, and doctor-patient confidentiality.
Nobody seems to want to talk about any of these other issues besides us.
So there's a lot of issues at play here, and I'm concerned.
Yeah, they've been shoving HIPAA violations down us our throats since 1995 as health care providers.
And now we have to freely say what our beliefs are, which I believe in medical privacy.
Don't get me wrong.
I that's part of my.
But why can't they find a way, whether it's a religious exemption or maybe a rare health condition exemption or maybe because because because they don't people just naturally don't want to get the vaccine for whatever reason.
Or those that have natural immunity and they feel protected with natural immunity.
Again, I'm waiting for the full science to come in out of Israel on this, which they're working on as we speak.
You know, why couldn't they find an accommodation?
It would seem to me that you can balance safety in the workplace and the ability of somebody to have a different point of view on this.
And this is what Joe even mentioned in his vaccine mandate speech that companies with 100 or more people, that people would have to show what their status is, or they would have to agree to be tested.
Now, the good part about the testing, as intrusive as that is, at least the only thing they're putting in your body is a Q-tip in your nose and circling it three or four times, right?
For those people, there's chemicals on the end of that Q-tip, ethylene oxide on the end of that Q-tip that go in there, that that mix.
Listen, I'm not saying this is the ideal thing.
Here's my fear.
I don't want nurses and teachers and cops and firemen and our military people to lose their salary, their pensions, their benefits.
So I'm trying to thread a needle to satisfy both sides here.
It's not the ideal answer.
I would agree with you.
It's not.
But I want to at least give people an option rather than you're fired.
Exactly.
Well, there's now over 17 studies that, 17 or 18 studies now, that, and I'm following it closely because I'm one of those people that will not get a vaccine.
I still have 10 and a half times the amount of antibodies in my system, 18 and greater than 18 months out.
There's no need in my medical mind in 35 years of nursing that I need to get that.
Until somebody proved me wrong or can tell me the rationale behind it, I just won't do it.
I'm actually very fortunate.
So you're 18 months out of having COVID and you still have a high level of antibodies and that is separate and apart from T cell antibodies, correct?
Yes, you don't measure your T cells, but you also have B cells, which live in your bones.
So T cells are your fighter cells that come out.
Like if you get, if I get exposed, I'm currently working in a COVID infusion center, so monoclonal antibody center.
So that, thank goodness, they're finally allowing that to happen.
Anybody that I know that tests positive, and a lot, but you'd be shocked how many people call me because they know I'm dealing with this every day.
I don't play doctor on radio.
I don't play it on TV.
I immediately tell them to talk to their doctor.
And the first thing that I'm saying is call your doctor immediately and ask your doctor about monoclonal antibodies.
And most people will say this to me.
What do you call that again?
And then I'll say, well, one brand is Regeneron, mono, and I spell it out clonal antibodies.
And I will spell it out for them because they might have heard me say it, but it's not, it's hardly ever talked about on television or radio.
And it has shown amazing success.
Now, I have friends that were unvaccinated, older, comorbidities, tested positive, one 76, one is 68.
And they did fine.
But within 24 hours, they got the infusion.
I have a friend that lives nearby me, and he had a breakthrough case.
He was fully vaccinated, and he got it within 24 hours.
And he had the best week of his life fishing as he sent his family down to Florida.
He got the Delta variant.
So I just, I'm not telling people what to do.
I'm saying ask your doctor about it and see what your doctor says about it.
Because I'm just, to be very honest, I'm not qualified to give medical advice.
I didn't go to medical school.
You know more about medicine than I do as a nurse.
Well, I hope so, but the thing of it is, is there are therapeutics out there, and I don't know from the time I got it in May of 20, there were therapeutics.
And when I called my provider saying, hey, I have 102, on day eight, I had 102, and I said, I need help.
And I said, give me some hydroxychloroquine.
I gave it in the 80s.
I'm not afraid to take old medication.
We use medications that aren't for the intended use all the time.
Listen, there are Harvard medical school-trained doctors.
There are Yale medical school-trained doctors that believe in that protocol.
Almost all of them, though, agree.
First, monoclonal antibodies, then HCQ.
And there is a human version to the, quote, horse dewormer.
Although Merck, the producer, the manufacturer, does not think it is an appropriate crossover use.
That's what they've said.
People have got to talk to their own doctors.
I'm not qualified to tell them.
Some providers, but you have to go to a compounding pharmacy to get it, and only a few doctors will give it.
More and more hospitals are doing the infusion like at the place that you're working.
But there's so many people that don't know it.
I mean, when they come in my chair and I'm treating them and I'm starting their ID and I'm talking to them and I'm saying, how'd you find out about?
We didn't know anything about this.
I put it on social media the other day, well, a few weeks back.
I said, if you have COVID, call me.
There's therapies that I can help you with.
Because I was donating my own plasma back in the day, the convalescent plasma, which now I can still give because I haven't had the vaccine.
If you get the vaccine, you cannot give it.
That's according to the American Red Cross.
Listen, I'm just going to emphasize what I've been telling people.
Take it seriously.
I have seen the worst of this.
Do your research.
And I'm not talking about putting on a lab coat and opening up your own virology lab.
I'm talking about read the research.
Learn the difference between what an mRNA vaccine is versus the Johnson ⁇ Johnson vaccine.
Then, of course, you need to look at your unique medical history, your current medical condition.
And the most important part of the equation is you need to talk to your doctor, doctors, and medical professionals you trust.
Don't listen to people on the radio or TV.
They're not doctors.
They didn't go to medical school.
And then make the right decision for you and your family.
I've seen the worst of this, Gail.
I know people that have died.
And I'm trying to be as responsible as I can be because I care about my audience.
And it is amazing the lack of information that has been out there that I think is important to know as part of an education.
Whether you hear people you agree with or disagree with, have this ongoing conversation with your medical professionals.
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